Ten years ago, a young man struck it rich, mining a huge amount of Kong Ore. He was promoted to a team attached to Yi Team, granted a powerful battle technique, and became one of the elite. Yet just over ten years earlier, he had been no more than an ordinary, unremarkable cultivator.
When the Fifth Continent underwent a cataclysmic change, some people saw despair, while others saw hope.
Most of those mining Kong Ore here held on to a sliver of hope. This was one of the few places where they could come into contact with the higher-ups of the Three Absolute Heavenly Gate.
More importantly, countless Swimming Fish from ancient times had been released into the river of stars. Even the most ordinary Swimming Fish could strengthen the body, and some were said to be so coveted by Star Envoys that catching just one could make you rich.
Xi Yue had come here with the same hope. She wanted to enter the Three Absolute Heavenly Gate through this place and gain the strength to avenge her people. In the current universe, star energy could no longer be replenished. The greatest and easiest powers to learn were battle qi and domain. She already had a foundation in battle qi, so joining the Three Absolute Heavenly Gate was naturally the right path for her.
Unfortunately, if not for Lu Yin, she wouldn't even have been allowed to stay here. She would have been sent to the front lines, another one of the few places that could bring someone to the attention of the Heavenly Gate's higher-ups—but the death rate there was nothing like it was here.
For anyone who cultivated battle qi, this was the safest place and the likeliest place to rise to the top in a single leap.